David Reads The Trades, 2/26/25

Limping our way to Oscar night, the producers take interviews and hedge a lot and lie a little… Jeff Bezos asserts further control over the Washington Post’s opinions, focusing on protecting Amazon instead of delivering the news honestly… Michelle Trachtenberg dies at 39 of complications from a liver transplant… and for some mysterious reason, Tatum O’Neal is on the cover of Variety…